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BUTTON.

No. 273,133. Patented Feb.2'7.1883'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

NELSON O. NEWELL, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 273,133, dated February27, 1883. Application filed November 15,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NELsoN O. NEWELL, acitizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the countyofHampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in buttons, and in methods ofuniting the parts thereof when said parts consist of several pieces ofmore or less rigid materials, the object being to provide improved meansfor combining in a button a face of pearl with a surrounding border ofcontrasting hard material, such as hardrubber or other similarsubstance, or vice versa, or in combining glass faces or borders withother contrasting substances, and to provide such improved means forsecuring said rigid materials together as result in a secure fasteningthereof without danger of breaking the parts in process of manufacture.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure III is atransverse section of a button embodying my invention. Fig. IV is a planview of the back of said button. Fig. II is a transverse section of thebutton-center. Fig. I is a likeview of the button back or shell, andFig. V is a side and a plan view of the uniting-eyelet adapted'to beused with said back and center.

In the drawings, 1) is the button-center. a is v the back or shell, andd is the uniting-eyelet.

In making the centers orface parts I) of the improvedbuttons hereindescribed and shown, any suitable hard materials similar to those abovementioned, or hard woods may be used, and said centers are provided witha perforated or other suitable shank, e, for the usual purpose ofsecuring the button thereby to a garment, and surrounding said shank inthe body of said center 12 is formed an undercut groove or chamber, 0.Said shank. may be either integral with said center or be suitablysecured to it. It is obviously not essential to the objects of thisinvention that said center I) and said back or shell to be of circularform, since other slifapes corresponding properly with each other may beadopted, according to the taste of the manufacturer. The shell on ismade to fit onto the back of the center b, and has a centralperforation, through which the shank 6 passes, as shown in Fig. III, and

a shallow groove is made around the border of said perforation, as shownin Fig. I.

The above-described center piece, I), and. shell a are secured one tothe other by means of a peculiarly-constructed eyelet, d. Said eyelethas a body of cylindrical form, having therein one or more slots, 2',and a flange, 0, surrounding one end and standing at an incline to saidbody, said flange 0 being provided with one or more slots, 1), from itsedge toward said cylindrical-body n.

The above-described partsi. 0., the center b, back or shell a, andeyelet d-are united as follows: The flange o of the eyelet, when thelatter is placed on the shank c and pressed toward the rear side of thecenter I), enters the groove 0 in the latter, and by continuing to forcethe eyelet toward said groove the flange 0 spreads, and thereby saideyelet becomes firmly locked to the center b, its body a surrounding theshank e. The back or shell or is now placed upon the rear side of saidcenter, and the edge of the body a ofthe eyelet, which projects throughsaid shell, is bent outward and forced against the latter and into thesaid groove adjacent to said shank, thus firmly securing said partstogether in the form of a button, as shown in Fig. III. Fig. IVillustrates the appearance of the tlange, which is formed upon the endof said eyelet by bending the edge of said body a outward and againstthe shell a. The construction of said eyelet with the inclined slottedflange 0 provides for easily forcing and securing it in the undercutgroove 0, and its slotted body permits of turn ing said flange againstthe shell without danger of breaking the latter by lateral pressure,since said body is not rigid transversely.

If desired, a thin washer, of cloth or similar material, may he placedbetween the shell (1 and center I), or between the outer flange of theeyelet and the shell, or both, before heading-down the eyelet, for thepurpose of obviating any danger there may be of breaking any part fromany lack of elasticity when the eyelet is finally tlanged, as abovedescribed.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. An improved button, consisting of acenter having a shank on its rear side and an undercut groove therein,surrounding said shank, of a perforated shell, substantially as eyelethaving a slotted cylindricalbodyadapt- [0 described, and of an eyelet,substantially as ed to engage with said shell, and a slotted described,adapted to engage in said groove flange thereon adapted to engage withinsaid in said. center and to engage With said shell, groove, all combinedsubstantially as setforth. as Set I NET SON o WWEI L 2. A button-centerhaving a shank .on its J J J rear side and an undercut groove therein,surrounding said shank, a perforated shell to fit upon the back of saidcenter, and a uniting- Witnesses:

F. H. DUMBLETON, VVM. G. NEWELL.

